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Presents news briefs concerning the computer industry in the United States as of May 4, 1998. Includes Mission Critical Software Inc.'s unveiling of SeNTry Enterprise Event Manager 2.0; Network Associates Inc.'s release of software updates to the Distributed Sniffer System and the Expert Sniffer Network Analyzer products; SoftTech Solutions' agreement with Rave Computer Association Inc.

Evaluates various high-speed network switches. List of company; Product of each company; Warranty; Management platforms; High-speed ports; Features of the products.

Focuses on the plans of electronic-businesses for an online expansion in the United States. Impact of the expansion on the corporate revenues; List of top industry winners; Forecast on the revenues in the internet and retail industries; Effects of the internet on consumer satisfaction. INSET: METHODOLOGY.

Details the efforts of the United States computer industry to develop products designed to let administrators oversee how data is to be routed and stored. Introduction of Sun Microsystems' Intelligent Storage Architecture and StorEdge line of products; Plan of EMC Corp. and StorageTek Corp. to boost NT support. INSETS: New company sifts through Internet data.;Sony Music rocks with server-centric storage solution..

Focuses on the computer industry. Discussions on the pressure given by Intel to subscribe to XML products; Plans to deploy XML for transactions; Combinations of exchanges and point-to-point connections similar to the Internet.

Reports on computer system distributor Ingram Micro Inc.'s strategy to reverse a downturn in its business. Ingram's restructuring program; Prospects for the company's data mining application; Ingram's revamp of its inventory management system.

Focuses on the services offered by application service providers (ASP) in the United States. ASP business models; Areas of applications; ASP products and services that meet the vertical needs of enterprises; Range of applications for information technology organizations.

Reports on Microsoft Corp.'s licensing of W. Quinn Associates Inc.'s StorageCentral software for inclusion in the former's Server Appliance Kit. Results of the deal; Terms of the agreement; Impact of the deal on resellers.

Focuses the plans of computer companies to upgrade infrastructure despite evidence of economic downturn in the United States. Increase in spending for technology; Sources of spending from corporations building private exchanges; Expectations on the participation of public markets.

Focuses on the increased attention to consulting and other peripheral services for Dell Computer Corp. according to company vice chairman James Vanderslice. Strategies to help clients do electronic business; Progress of the company's Dell Marketplace exchange. INSET: E-Biz, Consulting Gravy.

Reports on United States-based information technology managers' confidence that their investment in Microsoft Corp. technology remains safe even though the company was ruled in violation of antitrust law. Negligible impact of possible sanctions on the company on the interoperability of its Windows operating systems and its existing components. INSET: WHAT IF MICROSOFT HAS TO UNBUNDLE OS FEATURES?.

Focuses on the RosettaNet group of computer companies' efforts to promote the XML technology. Preparation of the group to implement its initial XML specifications; Applications of XML in the supply chain; Efforts of the organization to expedite the development of new electronic-commerce applications.

Reports on top United States computer manufacturers' launch of products and services that give information technology managers confidence to run vital business applications on the Linux open-source operating system. Efforts to step up firms' commitment to Linux; Range of Linux development tools and systems integration and support services in the market.

Features several inexpensive servers being introduced in the multiprocessor enterprise system market. Features; Capabilities; Price range; Description of some these servers introduced by manufacturers including Hewlett-Packard, International Business Machines Corp. and Sun Microsystems Corp.

Focuses on the concept of `pervasive' or `ambient' computing. Computer companies and related firms' ambient computing projects; Potential of the Wireless Application Protocol; Impact on commerce; Venues of development. INSET: Pervasive Computing Advice For IT.

Reports own USinternetworking Inc.'s offering of e-mail outsourcing in the United States. Deployment, hosting and management of messaging systems based on Microsoft Exchange; Focus of the company on offering basic services to Exchange offering; Development of partnerships with systems integrators.

Reports on PeopleSoft's introduction of PeopleSoft 9 and SAP's shipment of key elements of mySAP.com. Strategies for bringing the companies' back-office applications to business-to-business electronic commerce; Software's improvement of the integration with other applications.

Reports on Cisco Systems Inc. and Lucent Technology Inc.'s plan to buy into information technology (IT) consulting firms in the United States. Cisco's investment in KPMG's IT consulting practice; Improvement of IT services; Consulting firms' possible loss of objectivity.

Reports on International Business Machines Corp. and PartMiner Inc.'s creation of an electronic procurement service in the United States. Aiding of electronic manufacturers in the location and purchase of supplies; Service as a combination of electronic marketplace, content aggregation site and hosted applications service.

Focuses on the online trading hub trend among industries. Concept of Infomediaries; Relevance of trading hubs; Creation of electronic catalogs and automated procurement conduits; Revenues generated by vertical market trading hubs; Views about the vertical portals; Factors affecting the success of trading hubs; Consolidation of business trading hubs.

Highlights executive and management changes at Compaq in 1999. Resignation of chief executive officer Eckhard Pfeiffer; Company's need to improve execution in order to recover from disappointing performance; Poor financial performance of the company; Other problems facing Compaq.

Reports on the complexity of policy management tools, according to information technology managers. Extreme Networks' plan to introduce Enterprsie Policy System, a server that controls quality of service; Other companies that have introduced policy management products; Parochial nature of policy management tools in 1999.

Reports on Interpath Communications Inc.'s use of hybrid switch-firewalls to delivery granular quality of service (QoS) and security levels for outsourced applications. Key features; Advantages offered by the hybrid platforms for enterprise customers; Interpath's use of five Fore ESX-4800 gigabit routing switches.

Focuses on the growing number of computer companies that are planning to release public-key infrastructure (PKI) systems. Features of the products; Conventional application of PKI technology; Sampling of PKI and digital certificate product launchings.

Focuses on the agreement between major computer vendors on the need to replace the standard PCI bus. Problems with the speed of existing buses; Three proposals to take over the work of the PCI bus; IBM's plans to establish a multicompany alliance in January 1999 to develop Future I/O; Intel's introduction of the technology called the Next Generation I/O.

Highlights the efforts of Microsoft and Netscape to make significant advances in supporting standards that include Extensible Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets and the Document Object Model. Introduction of Microsoft's first public beta of its Internet Explorer 5.0; Netscape's decision to abandon its browser rendering engine in favor of NGLayout; Partial support by Microsoft.

Reports on the introduction of personal computer servers that can support data center applications by computer vendors in the United States. Integration of eight-processor Pentium II Xeon servers that use processor interconnects; Details on the product-launching plans of several computer manufacturers; Emergence of the eight-processor servers from Intel Corp.'s acquisition of Corollary Inc.

Focuses on the release of the first version of the Information & Content Exchange (ICE), a specification for setting up and automating business rules that govern Web content exchange, by Vignette Corp. and 80 end-user partners. Products supporting ICE; Benefits of the widely adoption of ICE; Submission of ICE to the World Wide Web Consortium for consideration as a standard.

Presents a listing of computer network intrusion detection products from various manufacturers available as of October 5, 1998. Features; Capabilities; Systems supported; System requirements.

Focuses on the trends in client/server computing with particular focus on PC servers as of October 1998. Includes the release of 64-processor servers running Intel's Pentium II Xeon chip; Importance of having the ability to run dual operating systems; Need to address the availability and reliability of mainframe-class PC servers.

Examines the advantages and disadvantages of thin server provided by various computer companies in the United States. List of companies that participated in the examination; Benchmark testing used in the examination; Consideration of product life; Features of Compaq's ProLiant 800. INSETS: Smooth move to NT 5.0 server.;How we tested.;Compaq takes gold, with Dell right behind..

Features a variety of network management tools to be launched at the 1998 NetWorld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Includes Concord Communications Inc.'s Network Health-ATM; Kaspia Systems Inc.'s Blueprint that integrates Kaspia's Enterprise Discovery Engine with Visio Professional drawing system; MetaInfo's IP Infrastructure Management System.

Describes a host of low-end switching products designed to appeal to small- and mid-sized businesses to be introduced at the 1998 NetWorld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada. 3Com's low-end line of switches and hubs; Intel's Gigabit Ethernet switch; Lancast Inc.'s fiber optic Ethernet and Fast Ethernet hubs and switches; Cut in the prices of the switching products.

Focuses on various computer security products to be introduced by firewall and network security vendors in the United States at the 1998 NetWorld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Central theme among the security announcements; Products supporting the international standard for digital certificate technology; Includes Axent Technologies' Enterprise Resource Manager 3.0. INSET: Managed security..

Focuses on the successful earnings reports of several networking companies in the United States for the first three months of 1998. Apple Computer's gross profit margins; Increase of Digital Equipment's profits; Increase of Sun Microsystems' profits by 12 percent.

Presents the views of computer industry experts on virtual practice networking (VPN). Factors driving the interest in VPNs; VPN service offerings; Lack of service level agreements a factor in slowing down deployment.

Reports on the holding of Demo '98, an exhibition of computer products in Indian Wells, California. Computer software displayed at show; Participating vendors; Pricing and availability of products; Comments of exhibitors.

Looks at the market of Fibre Channel in 1998. Estimated revenue to be made by Fibre Channel in 1998; Features of Fibre Channel that was considered an advantage; Capabilities of Fibre Channel that appeals to data administrators; Intriguing characteristics of Fibre.

Predicts the market of virtual private network (VPN) in 1998. Problems faced by VPN in 1998; Concerns of information technology (IT) managers on VPN; Challenges faced by services providers on the leveraging of VPN.

Predicts the state of computer and networking industry in 1998 after a dropped of sales in 1997. Companies that facing various charges of their own mistakes; Problems faced by AT&T company in 1997; Companies that has maintained strong sales despite its problems.

Reports on FileNet Corp. Company's plan to deliver Web-centric client by early 1998; Information on the company's Discovery suite; Two major products which focuses around Windows NT that the company is planning to release.

Discloses plans by major computer vendors to roll out new capabilities that will enable users to install locally encryption applications to their computers and make payment for the software over the Internet. Emergence of solutions that would use Internet push technology; Microsoft's Internet 4.0 Active Channels as a marketing front end; Fault-Line Software's virtual software vending machine.

Presents the Siliconrax-Slinger SRCX-110 as fit for data center. Use of server for running file, mails and Web services; Descriptions on the server; Emphasis on the use of riser card.

Focuses on the computer industry. Conduction of polls between Sun and Microsoft; Competition on technology and service; Emphasis on product innovation.

Comments on several issues related to the computer industry in the United States. Effects of the settlement between the federal government and Microsoft on the company; Opinion on the losing circumstances of infrastructure supplier Sun Microsystems against Microsoft; Reaction of the Hewlett and Packard families on the proposed merger with Compaq.

Presents a chart depicting the platform providers in business enterprises in two years in the United States.

Reports developments on computer industry in the United States as of October 2001. Lawsuit filed by Novell against Microsoft for false advertising; Decline of the growth of global Internet backbones; Retrenchment of workforce of Internet research and measurement firm Jupiter Media Metrix.

Reports developments related to computer industry in the United States as of October 2001. Forecast on the increase of expenditures for electronic mail systems by 2006; Business agreement of John Hancock Financial Services and OnlineBenefits Inc.; Addition of International Business Machines in the list of vendors for MarketMile products.

Reports on news and information within the Internet business sector. The death of Dan Lewin, an executive at Akamai Technologies Inc. in the World Trade Center terrorist attack; The release of a customer relationship management application by SAP AG; The agreement by Target Corp. to open an online store on Amazon.com.

Presents charts depicting the industrial productivity of computer companies in the United States. Expectations of sales and earning goals; Reference to the gains of companies; Determinants of stock values.